AISECT forays into the world of Multimedia Studies

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August 26, 2022

AISECT, India’s leading higher education group, forays into the world of Multimedia Studies by launching the AISECT Academy of Animation, Multimedia & Gaming. The academy will offer a myriad of courses under the Degree, Diploma, Certificate program and short-term course categories that will help students to have more career options in the field of Animation, VFX, Gaming and Comic (AVGC).

With a strong focus on creativity and technology, the academy will train aspiring students in creative expression through applied learning and collaborative environments by leveraging best-in-class- technical and conceptual techniques. The Diploma program in Animation & Visual Effects will span for 12 months. The 6-month programs include certification in Animation, 3D Animation, Visual Effects, Graphic Design, Photo Editing, and Video Editing to name a few.

Speaking on the launch of the Academy, Director of AISECT Group Siddharth Chaturvedi said “Over the years, there has been a multi-fold increase for talented manpower in Animation, Visual effects and Graphic Designing. We are glad to launch the AISECT Academy of Animation, Multimedia & Gaming with an aim to foster talent in this area and provide world-class training, at par with global standards. A degree in Animation is not limited to the creative field, it opens up avenues in various streams like Automobile, Mechanical industry, Web development, Coding, Graphic designing, Films and movie making etc. We encourage aspiring students with a knack in this arena to apply and carve a niche in this dynamic field.

The AISECT Academy of Animation, Multimedia & Gaming is built around the key pillars of World-class Education, Cutting edge Research and Impactful collaboration. The demand for skilled animators far exceeds the supply,as animation is one of the fastest-growing career options in India. The animation industry requires an average of 30,000 skilled professionals every year.

A ‘blended learning’ mode of training to cater to young students will be followed by AISECT Academy of Animation, Multimedia & Gaming. The module will encompass an eclectic mix of traditional training methods as well as innovative methods such as on-ground practical gamification, as well as research-based learning in order to pique students’ interest. The Academy’s cutting-edge & job-relevant courses are designed to train students with futuristic and in-demand job roles like- Animator, Game Developer, Storyboard and VFX Artist, Multimedia Designer and Professional Video Editors in AVGC sector.

IGNOU to train 15 lakh higher education teachers as the implementation of NEP

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August 26, 2022

The Union ministry of education has entrusted Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) with the responsibility of orienting 15 lakh higher education teachers of universities and their constituent colleges across India for the implementation of the National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) in six months.

The programme is proposed to be launched by Dharmendra Pradhan, Union education minister on Teachers’ Day (September 5) this year. As per senior regional director, IGNOU Regional Centre Noida, Amit Chaturvedi, NEP-PDP (National Education Policy-Professional Development Programme)— a 36-hour training programme—is being offered by IGNOU exclusively for the Teachers of higher education institutions/universities.

“It is expected that on completion of the programme, the teachers of higher education institutions shall be well-equipped with knowledge about various dimensions of NEP-2020.”, He said.

“The programme can be completed within 6-9 days. For the purpose of assessment and certification, the participants will have to attempt a discussion forum test (15 MCQs for 30 marks) and a programme-end test (35 MCQs for 70 marks). If they score 50% or more in the tests, an e-certificate of completion will be awarded to them,” he added.

Karnataka govt to implement NEP in 20,000 anganwadis this academic year

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August 26, 2022

The National Education Policy (NEP) will be implemented in anganwadis, as per the announcement made yesterday by BC Nagesh, the minister of education and literacy for the state of Karnataka. The education department will lay the groundwork for this to happen, along with the women and child development department. He said that 20,000 anganwadis across the state would serve as the government’s initial test sites for the NEP.

Addressing the press, Halappa Achar, Minister of Women and Child Development said that the state government will be ready with the framework by October or November after the Centre publishes the national curriculum. “There are six committees formed by the government to create a state curriculum framework for early childcare and education. These six committees will have different task forces that propose the curriculum, teacher training and learning capabilities among other guidelines, which will be on par with the NEP. We will first experiment with the NEP in 20,000 anganwadis across the state. Depending upon the success in these anganwadis, we will further implement it in the rest of the anganwadis.”

Children will be enrolled in anganwadis at the age of three years, considering that they will be mature and intellectually able to grasp concepts,as per the NEP, the minister added.

The minister also mentioned that activities like chilipili (experiential learning) and nali-kali are already underway in around 13,333 anganwadis and that Karnataka will have an edge when the NEP is implemented.

There are around 66,361 anganwadis in the state wherein, 6,017 workers are degree holders, 40,786 have completed SSLC, 14,303 qualified till PUC and only 737 are post-graduates,said Achar.

“Most of the anganwadi workers are between 42 and 46 years. These workers must be trained appropriately to implement NEP at the early childcare and education level,” he said.

Department of State Educational Research will train the workers and Training offices or at institutions that offer diplomas in education (D.ED).

“I have requested the central government to assist in building additional anganwadis to cater to the children who are out of the early education stage. We will ensure that the new anganwadis are built within the public school premises so that children do not have to look out for other schools to pursue their primary and secondary education.”, Achar further added.

TS EdCET 2022 results to be released today

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August 26, 2022

Telangana State Education Common Entrance Test (TS EdCET) 2022 results will be released today at 4.30 pm.

Prof. R Limbadri, Chairman,TSCHE (Telangana State Council of Higher Education), Prof. V Venkata Ramana, Vice Chairman,TSCHE and Prof. D Ravinder, Vice Chancellor, Osmania University will announce the results along with top rankers.

Candidates can visit the below website, to check the results: https://edcet.tsche.ac.in/.

Here’s how to check, TS EdCET Results 2022:

Go to the official website edcet.tsche.ac.in mentioned above
On the homepage, click on the link ‘TS EdCET Results’.
A login window will pop up.
Enter the login details like admit card number and date of birth.
Click on the Submit and candidates would see their results on the screen.
Download the scorecard.

President of India to confer the National Awards to Teachers 2022

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August 26, 2022

President of India Smt Droupadi Murmu will confer National Awards to Teachers 2022 to 46 selected awardees on 5th September 2022 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on the occasion of teachers day.

The Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education has been organising a National level function on Teachers Day i.e. 5th September every year to confer the National Awards to the best teachers of the country, selected through a rigorous transparent and online three-stage selection process.

The purpose of the National Awards to Teachers is to commemorate the unique contribution of teachers in the country and to honour those teachers who through their commitment and industry have not only improved the quality of school education but also enriched the lives of their students.

IGNOU releases JUNE TEE results, accessible at ignou.ac.in

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August 25, 2022

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on 24th August 2022 announced the results of its June Term End Examination. Those who appeared for the exam can now check their result at the official website ignou.ac.in.

The exams which began on July 20, 2022, for various Academic Programmes offered by the University will conclude on September 5, 2022. These exams are being held in the morning as well as evening sessions. For the smooth and hassle-free conduct of examinations, IGNOU has earmarked 831 examination centres of which 18 are overseas centres and 82 are prisoners-specific centres- for jail inmates. Hall Tickets were released for 769482 eligible candidates.

At present, the result is released for only those candidates who have appeared for the TEE exams till date. In order to access the results, candidates can use their enrolment number.

IGNOU TEE June Result 2022 – How to check

Visit the official website of IGNOU- ignou.ac.in
On the homepage, click on this link which mentions- “June Term End Examination Result declared”
Fill in your enrollment number and submit.
Your IGNOU TEE Result 2022 will appear on the screen

Once the exams conclude in September, the scorecard for the remaining candidates will be declared.

Edtech company BrightCHAMPS acquires Schola

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August 24, 2022

Global edtech company, BrightCHAMPS, has acquired Singapore-headquartered Schola, a live-learning platform for kids to master communication and English skills, in a $15 Mn cash and stock deal.

The company said the acquisition is in line with its $100 Mn investment war-chest announcement in June, and BrightCHAMPS’ vision of becoming the one-stop destination for all next-gen life skills for kids in the K-12 segment.

Announcing the deal, Ravi Bhushan, Founder & CEO, BrightCHAMPS, said, “We’re thrilled to welcome Schola to the growing BrightCHAMPS family. The ability to communicate confidently, coherently, and creatively is a crucial life-skill for kids and a prerequisite for success as an adult, and we’re excited to have the exceptionally talented Team Schola lead this charge with BrightCHAMPS. Given Schola’s profitability and sustainable growth approach with low cash-burn, we already know that there is great synergy between the two companies’ operating models. I am confident that with Aditya and Nhu at the forefront, not only will Schola deepen our presence in the 30+ countries we’re already operational in, but will also help us introduce BrightCHAMPS to many other parts of the world.”

Schola was founded in 2019 by former senior Facebook executives, Aditya Gupta and Nhu Tran Le Thanh. The company offers a variety of courses in a live, one-on-one class model for kids from 4 to 15 years of age to build important capabilities for successful global careers for tomorrow.

These skills include communications, public speaking, leadership presentation, confidence-building, and several others. Additionally, Schola courses have been designed keeping in mind the particular needs of kids who are first-generation English speakers, with an emphasis on learning through the real-life practice of spoken English. The company currently offers classes to students from 12 countries, including Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and others.

Aditya Gupta, Cofounder & CEO, Schola, said, “Schola’s mission is to build the world’s next generation of confident, creative and communicative kids. Far too many kids from countries and families that don’t speak English as their first language end up getting overlooked for higher education or career opportunities despite being perfectly qualified in every other way. Our goal is that lack of English proficiency should never again come in the way of a child’s dreams once they are touched by Schola. We’re excited to join hands with BrightCHAMPS, given our shared ethos and purpose. We hope that the combination of BrightCHAMPS’ brand equity and our subject-matter expertise will help Schola lead the world in the communications live-learning space. We look forward to expanding our presence beyond the 12 countries we are currently operational in the months to come.”

Launched in 2020, BrightCHAMPS is currently valued at $650 Mn, after raising $63 Mn from marquee investors across geographies such as US-based GSV Ventures, Singapore-based BEENEXT, and Premji Invest and Flipkart Cofounder Binny Bansal-backed 021 Capital from India.

The company claims to be one of the fastest growing edtechs globally. It said it currently employs thousands of educators delivering 300k classes every month across its coding, financial literacy, and robotics verticals for kids between 6 to 16 years of age to help them become future-ready and thrive in a modern world.

BrightCHAMPS was founded by Ravi Bhushan, an IIT-Varanasi graduate, who had previously scaled two startups, including housing.com in its heyday, to growth stage businesses.

DevOps Institute launches SKILup IT Learning for IT professionals

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August 24, 2022

A global learning community, DevOps Institute has recently unveiled, a subscription-based online educational destination for IT professionals called SKILup IT Learning. It is a self-directed learning platform focused entirely on DevOps and Digital Transformation.

With the goal of empowering people who power IT, DevOps Institute offers IT professionals the resources, guidance, experts, and encouragement to learn so that they may advance their careers and upskill for enterprise transformation.

The education platform follows a three-tier system which includes SKILup IT Learning – paid subscription-based learning, SKILup IT Learning+ – upgraded paid subscription-based learning including a growing portfolio of relevant certification preparation video training courses, and Community Member – limited access as part of DevOps Institute’s free community membership.

Moreover, the skill development and learning platform offer its subscribers a wide range of content, practical education, and knowledge that they claim is not readily available on other learning platforms. Besides, the top-level subscription also provides certification preparation training for DevOps Institute and other certification programs.

Furthermore, subscribers to SKILup IT Learning will have access to broad and trending ‘essential’ knowledge, and insight into enhancing culture, human skills, and leadership that every practitioner at all levels needs.

Additionally, a subscription to the platform empowers DevOps Humans, further advancing organisations as they navigate the quick pace of enterprise transformation. Subscribers may easily distill and explore education and training around the latest DevOps skills and topics, according to the learning company.

In addition to two levels of paid subscriptions and limited free access for DevOps Institute community members, SKILup IT Learning is accessible to everyone through DevOps Institute.

The subscribers also have access to a growing catalog of cutting-edge educational content and training focused on relevant technical, process, and human aspects related to DevOps.

The IT Learning subscription provides a well-rounded learning platform built on multiple series including trending classes on essential DevOps-related topics, human aspects, books clubs, and author training on their books.

SKILup IT Learning emphasises exclusively on the people, process, and automation skills needed for digital transformation, thus providing SKILup Discussions, an interactive chat platform with topic-specific channels to discuss, share, ask questions, and network with others subscribers, industry thought leaders, and community members.

Further, there will be ‘day in the life’ videos, on-demand presentations, and access to DevOps Institute’s SKILbooks. A subscription to SKILup IT Learning also helps certified individuals earn credits toward the DevOps Institute Continuing Education Program.

Sharing his views, Jayne Groll, CEO at DevOps Institute said, “SKILup IT Learning is the IT professional’s one-stop destination for continuous learning on topics relevant to DevOps and Digital Transformation.”

“The 2022 Upskilling IT Report findings clearly prove that upskilling IT resources and skills shortages are a major issue for organizations and individuals alike. SKILup IT Learning offers a unique solution to this huge challenge by making practical education from recognized thought leaders,” he added.

DevOps Institute seeks to aid in developing both professional and personal expertise. Focused exclusively on all things DevOps and digital transformation, it offers IT professionals, at all levels deep practical knowledge, a welcoming network of industry leaders, respected certification programs, and insider events.

NTU Singapore to strengthen partnership with India in technology, innovation & entrepreneurship

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August 23, 2022

The recently held Singapore-India Dialogue session hosted by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, to foster collaborations in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Held at The Leela Palace Hotel, Bengaluru, the session aimed to strengthen and build upon NTU Singapore’s existing partnerships with top universities and research institutes in India forged during Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s visit to NTU in 2018.

According to an official statement, the NTU Singapore-India Dialogue focused on issues such as the transformation of education, research, and innovation in a post-pandemic world, and provisions for Singapore and India to further strengthen the collaboration in the area of technopreneurship.

Over 200 dignitaries, including prominent business and political figures, academics, and distinguished alumni, attended the event. Notable speakers at the NTU Singapore-India Dialogue were Shekhar Kapur, Oscar-nominated film director and Chairman of the Indian Film & Television Institute; and S Somnath, Chairman of the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO).

Sharing his views, Subra Suresh, Professor, President, NTU Singapore, said, “The NTU Singapore-India partnership dialogue in Bengaluru seeks to encourage the exchange of ideas that would potentially lead to multi-disciplinary and multi-sector collaborations in education, research, and translation of scientific discoveries to practice. The NTU leadership team looks forward to exploring opportunities to work closely with academic collaborators, Indian industry partners, and entrepreneurs in areas and activities that are aligned with the NTU 2025 Strategic Plan.”

Moreover, the statement claims that during the visit of PM Modi in 2018, NTU signed five agreements to strengthen academic and industry partnerships with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for Research Attachment and Joint Supervision opportunities; IIT Bombay, and IIT Madras for joint Ph.D. programmes.

Additionally, NTU has academic collaborations with the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology for joint satellite projects along with the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) to leverage NTU’s excellence in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and big data analytics, it added.

Commenting on the collaboration, Hemang Jani, Secretary, Capacity Building Mission, Government of India said, “In India, we look forward to exploring partnering with NTU to share their best practices for upgrading the technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship training of the Indian civil service.”

The dialogue session also saw the participation of prominent figures with links to the university, including representatives from NTU partners, Govindan Rangarajan, Director of the Indian Institute of Science, and Professor Rishikesa T. Krishnan, Director of IIM Bangalore.

The NTU Singapore-India Dialogue provided an opportunity for NTU to reconnect with its alumni community, which consists of more than 275,600 former students from more than 160 nations. Vinod Kannan, CEO of Vistara, Suman Mishra, CEO of Mahindra Electric Mobility, and Ajit Mohan, VP & Managing Director of India-Meta were among the NTU alumni in India who attended or spoke at the session. Besides, there are more than 7,800 NTU alumni in India.

In addition to the dialogue session, the NTU Singapore Graduate Programme Recruitment Roadshow was held, with information sessions on NTU’s graduate programmes. According to the QS World University Rankings 2022, NTU Singapore is ranked among the top 20 universities in the world.

upGrad to enable 75,000 jobs through its upskilling programme

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August 23, 2022

upGrad is boosting its efforts to offer the largest upskilling programme portfolio that will allow first-time job seekers and working professionals to take their own upGrad branded courses.

Ronnie Screwvala-led edtech startup aims to enable 75,000 jobs in a year with the new programme. Most of the programmes are online, with some combined with offline centres launching in major cities. This would provide upGrad the opportunity to scale and drive massive employment across the country.

80% of those who enter the workforce find it difficult to get hired, according to the higher edtech company. Thus, the upGrad course portfolio is dedicated to equipping individuals with the necessary skill sets to find suitable jobs.

The company claims that corporate hiring costs are rising and that this programme benefits both the employer and the employee by saving time and money.

Currently, upGrad works with over 3,700 companies around the world for their training needs. With more than 3 Mn learners over the last seven years, the company can comprehend the demands of the employee.

Sharing his views, Mayank Kumar, Cofounder and MD, upGrad said, “Our own branded certification courses for job enablement allow us the flexibility to focus on what makes the first-time employee or working professionals move up in their jobs or shift careers in order, to upgrade themselves.”

“It fits in directly with our mission to enable India to be positioned as the global skill talent capital of the world”, Kumar added.

Further elaborating, Ashish Sharma, VP – New Business, upGrad, said “We are seeing a lot of demand from Europe and the US for these programmes while India is a massive opportunity that we aim to focus on for the first one year.”

“The world needs a 20 Mn developer talent pool by 2030 and we see this as a core need to transform our workforce and is a strong offering for all our corporate partners,” Sharma mentioned.

Moreover, the edtech startup has recently raised $210 Mn funding from investors including Bodhi Tree (a JV of James Murdoch & Uday Shankar), the family office of Bharti Airtel, Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office (Ambuja Cements and ACC), and Artian Investments (Family Office of Lakshmi Mittal – ArcelorMittal). As per reports, the funding enabled the company to double its valuation to $2.25 Bn.

As per the edtech major, 40% of the company’s total revenue is realised from repeats and referrals year-on-year (YoY). During FY23, upGrad is on track to record annual gross revenues of $400–500 Mn, of which about 45% will be realised from its own-branded online courses and programmes, said the company. Besides, it expects the job-enabled segment to generate $200 Mn of its revenue in the next two years.

In the following three months, the upGrad team is expected to expand from its current 4,800 members to 7,600. More than 1,600 educators, 170 full-time faculty members, and 5,000 on-contract coaches and mentors will also be a part of the team.

The Indian job market is outgrowing traditional job roles with the emergence of new-age technology. According to job data research, 60% of Indian employees would need to upskill and 40% will need to re-skill in the next five years in order to be market-ready.

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